ARG! I can't get my front bumper off! anyone have secrets?
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the cover has cleared the wheel well liners...
I was hoping to NOT have to take off the wheels...
the APR instuctions for the engine mount install say just pull up and out... arg... this is a PITA...
hmmm....
the APR instuctions for the engine mount install say just pull up and out... arg... this is a PITA...
hmmm....
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Yeah. it was as PITA with mine.
You need to be sure to remove all the things holding it on. There are some really long bolts up front - which it sounds like you found.
Then there are a whole number of plastic screws and rivets in the wheel wells. At least that how my 99 A4 was, the 01 wagon may have some differences.
Then there are some attachments to the plastic skid plate.
NOW you can mess with the hidden burly clips that attach the wraparound sides of the bumper cover to the body, these live just in front of the wheels and allow about 1/2 inch forward motion... the picture in my shop manual (for the 99 again) shows you having to simultanously pull outward and push downward to release. Then do the other side. I hand the hasse of freeing one, then having it snap back in when I worked the other. Ended up using two people and pulling MUCH harder "outward" before they release and allowed the thing to move forward.
Oh yeah, there's also the headlight washer hose, even if you don't have wipers on your heads, it's there.
(all info from my '99 experience...)
Then there are a whole number of plastic screws and rivets in the wheel wells. At least that how my 99 A4 was, the 01 wagon may have some differences.
Then there are some attachments to the plastic skid plate.
NOW you can mess with the hidden burly clips that attach the wraparound sides of the bumper cover to the body, these live just in front of the wheels and allow about 1/2 inch forward motion... the picture in my shop manual (for the 99 again) shows you having to simultanously pull outward and push downward to release. Then do the other side. I hand the hasse of freeing one, then having it snap back in when I worked the other. Ended up using two people and pulling MUCH harder "outward" before they release and allowed the thing to move forward.
Oh yeah, there's also the headlight washer hose, even if you don't have wipers on your heads, it's there.
(all info from my '99 experience...)
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Stick your fingers in the body gap between the fender and bumper near the wheel well.....
<center><img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/776/bumper56.jpg"></center><p>And pull down HARD and then pull out the top part first.
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